Lorien Johnson

Generalized Notes of Observation from a liberty-inclined, ocean-crossing historian-in-the-making.

Category: Scholar

Decision: One Normal Year

I have had a rough semester, and it’s rather neatly of my own doing. I’ve been stretching out my burn-out for too long, and then this semester I began a graduate program. I had very good reasons for doing so, but the result has been rather ridiculously harrowing. In my first term (two 8-week terms [...]

Analysis of Bolivia and How Evo Could *Truly* Win

We heard some fascinating political and legal analysis on current events from a top-notch specialist in Bolivian law. I’m not naming him here simply because I didn’t get his express permission to do so. Kindly, deal with it. I’m posting the analysis, and then we can all go about researching it as we wish. Prior [...]

In Which Elizabeth Gaskell and Judi Dench Demand that Lorien Read Theology

If ever motivation existed for trudging through the task of reading 175+ academic pages a day, planning two research projects, and writing book reviews, journal article critiques, and discussion board entries each and every day… … then it existed in the form of Cranford. My big boxes full of textbooks (half of which are bigger [...]

Glutton for Punishment

I am a fool. A smart fool, but a fool nonetheless. I have willingly signed up for more classes. My GPA is right on the border. 3.745. If I take just one more class, I'm bumped up to Magna CL in the U.S., and firmly upper Second Class in the U.K. I was fine with [...]

I Haven't Got Time…

I will have to buy this stamp for future use in grading students' essays.